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> Amazon has forced attrition Do you know how they implement it? Is it the old Microsoft model with obligatory bell curve distribution of performance reviews?

• vkou 6y ago
  Every org of, say, 100 people has a quota of X poor performers that they need to produce to senior management every year. Each manager of, say, 10 people rates their own reports. The managers in the org compare notes, and count up how many poor performers they have between them. If the number is below X, managers who did not downrate enough people are told to go back, and find more people to give bad ratings to. If they can't find those people, that's fine - then those managers will get downrated.
  • dudul 6y ago
    > Every org of, say, 100 people has a quota of X poor performers that they need to produce to senior management every year. OK, that's what I meant. Thank you. I was part (as a manager) of a smallish org that started doing that after being acquired by a big corpo. I just left :)
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